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former president was moved out of intensive care at a houston hospital. ♪ i once was lost but now i'm found was blind ♪ >> first lady barbara bush called the band one of her husband's favorites and asked them to serenade him while he was in the hospital suffering from bronchitis and other related issues. al roker is in pasadena. lucky guy. >> announcer: "today's" weather is brought to you by ankkellogg special k products. >> awful nice of you, andrea. thank you very much. we are literally riding high, 17 feet in the air, this is the rfd tv float. it is a giant john deere tractor. take a look at our other camera, all the detail. you see tea leaves, parsley covering this, aall these flowers. it is awfully cool. we'll have 13 vintage tractors following them here on the rose parade route that kicks off tomorrow, 11:00 am eastern, 8:00 am pacific time right here on nbc. let's get you caught up as far as your weather is concerned. and we are looking at, for new year's day, new year's eve day, a lot of rain down from the south into texas, mid mississippi river valley, snow showers from wes
former president was moved out of intensive care at a houston hospital. ♪ i once was lost but now i'm found was blind ♪ >> first lady barbara bush called the band one of her husband's favorites and asked them to serenade him while he was in the hospital suffering from bronchitis and other related issues. al roker is in pasadena. lucky guy. >> announcer: "today's" weather is brought to you by ankkellogg special k products. >> awful nice of you, andrea. thank you...
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whitney houston passed? >> she's probably the biggest one. it was -- obviously it happened last february right before the grammys. she was found at the beverly hilton in her bathtub. yeah, i mean, it's obviously just such a tragedy. she -- it's hard to still fathom that she's gone. i think because she's just so iconic and the music is so huge. >> i hear she's coming back. she'll be back on broadway, not as her, of course, naturally, but it's just premiered in london to a huge reaction. heather headley. >> she's great. >> kathie lee is scooping me. >> of course she is. >> got to read cindy adams' college. >> a birth to blue ivy. >> the coolest baby in the world. she sshgs like -- she's barely a year. she's way cooler than us. she is -- i mean, i would like to hang with blue ivy. beyonce and jayzee's daughter. she was born last january, and she was kind of the secret. no one has seen what she looks like. they've been very cautious. >> they have been that way about their whole relationship. that's probably why it's doing so well. >> exactly. exa
whitney houston passed? >> she's probably the biggest one. it was -- obviously it happened last february right before the grammys. she was found at the beverly hilton in her bathtub. yeah, i mean, it's obviously just such a tragedy. she -- it's hard to still fathom that she's gone. i think because she's just so iconic and the music is so huge. >> i hear she's coming back. she'll be back on broadway, not as her, of course, naturally, but it's just premiered in london to a huge...
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this is how it works in houston, which has no zoning. half of the residential neighborhoods have restrictions. if you live in a neighborhood without restrictions, you are allowed to petition neighbors, and if 75% agree, you can write covenants and restrictions for your neighborhood. if the developer says we think your neighborhood would be more valuable if we changed it, and we will pay you to change, you can vote to do that. that happens all the time. you get an evolutionary system that responds to demand, rather than government winds and fads. >> your thoughts about the federal housing administration, maintained a stable housing market, has helped lower and middle homes in the market. guest: when you have something like the f.h.a., you actually are creating more instability in the housing market. host: how do they subsidy it? guest: when you have land use restrictions, increases in demand mean rapid increases in prices. and so instead of housing prices going like this, you see housing prices going like this. and that ends up creating l
this is how it works in houston, which has no zoning. half of the residential neighborhoods have restrictions. if you live in a neighborhood without restrictions, you are allowed to petition neighbors, and if 75% agree, you can write covenants and restrictions for your neighborhood. if the developer says we think your neighborhood would be more valuable if we changed it, and we will pay you to change, you can vote to do that. that happens all the time. you get an evolutionary system that...
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he holds the undergraduate degree from texas a&m, and mba from university of houston. we are looking forward to your comments today on this very important topic. thanks for being here. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you, everyone. [applause] well, thank you. i really appreciate the opportunity to address each one of you. as we talked today, our nation is actually wrestling with one of the largest issues, probably in a long time. that's our debt, and the large amount of debt that the united states is facing today. i will outline the challenge we face. i will also show you transforming health care in the ways we can solve this debt issue. i'll demonstrate approaches in the delivery system and how it's already achieving results outside of the federal government. i'll describe how health care can harness simplicity to have stability as we undergo transformation. first, i want to take a moment and talk about ohio. and cleveland. how they are addressing some of the large issues here locally. particularly, the recently announce the demonst
he holds the undergraduate degree from texas a&m, and mba from university of houston. we are looking forward to your comments today on this very important topic. thanks for being here. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you, everyone. [applause] well, thank you. i really appreciate the opportunity to address each one of you. as we talked today, our nation is actually wrestling with one of the largest issues, probably in a long time. that's our debt,...